Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessmen knew it, Congress knew it, the Brain Trust knew it, Mr. Homer Stille Cummings knew it: The Justices of the Supreme Court would do their duty as they saw it. Yet somehow nearly everyone had overlooked the obvious fact that the nine potent, grave and reverend judges would first take a good look at that duty. Last week when the Court in unmistakable fashion began that scrutiny, business fell into a dither, Congress chattered, the Brain Trust fretted and the Attorney General blushed...
...Ickes, who is also PWAdministrator and Petroleum Administrator, issued an order to the effect that no man could serve both as a city official and as an administrator of a PWA project within that city. If he tried to, PWA would shut off funds for the project involved. Immediately obvious was it that the PWAdministrator could have saved time by announcing that the Triborough Bridge Authority would get no more Federal money until Robert Moses resigned from it or from his job as City Park Commissioner. Apparently no one else in the land was affected by the order...
...Since English Rolls Royce Ltd. became so vexed last year with the Rolls Royce Co. of America that the latter is now Springfield Manufacturing Co., another pioneer opportunity is obvious. But are U. S. citizens ready to pay some $18,000 today for a brand new English Rolls...
...injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition hales him up as a heretic, the Jew flays the Church for being unChristian, is condemned to burn. The facts that the flames do not harm him, that he dies spontaneously in a sudden glow of light, make it obvious that the Jew is redeemed...
Only Englishmen to get really excited were Socialist intellectuals like Lord Marley. "Bennett's inability to make further concessions plus his obvious need to advocate some bold policy for election, makes him turn to some idea better called 'state Capitalism' than Fascism," cried Marley. "This way out came natural to a man of Bennett's mental equipment, which, though clever, completely refuses to face the real cause of the crisis and the real way out. Bennett and the forces he represents are obviously making Capitalism's last stand...